WORKS CONSULTED: Extra Printed Sources

WORKS CONSULTED: Extra Printed Sources

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Personal Interview

Listed by the name of the person you have interviewed.

Purdue, Pete. Personal interview. 1 Dec. 2000.

Lecture or Speech

Include speaker name, title of the speech (if any) in quotes, details about the meeting or event where the speech was given, including its location and date of delivery. In lieu of a title, label the speech according to its type, e.g., Guest Lecture, Keynote Address, State of the Union Address.

Speaker. Lecture Title. Event. Location, School, City & State. Date.

Stein, Bob. Keynote Address. Computers and Writing Conference. Union Club

Hotel, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. 23 May 2003.

Recorded Television Shows

Include information about original broadcast, plus medium of recording. When the title of the collection of recordings is different than the original series (e.g., the show Friends is in DVD release under the title Friends: The Complete Sixth Season), list the title that would be help researchers located the recording.

“The One Where Chandler Can't Cry.” Friends: The Complete Sixth Season. Writ.

Andrew Reich and Ted Cohen. Dir. Kevin Bright. NBC. 10 Feb. 2000. DVD. Warner Brothers, 2004.

Films and Movies

List films by their title, and include the name of the director, the film studio or distributor and its release year. If other information, like names of performers, is relevant to how the film is referred to in your paper, include that as well.

Movies in Theaters

The Usual Suspects. Dir. Bryan Singer. Perf. Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne, Chazz

Palminteri, Stephen Baldwin, and Benecio del Toro. Polygram, 1995.

If you refer to the film in terms of the role or contribution of a director, writer, or performer, begin the entry with that person’s name, last name first, followed by role.

Lucas, George, dir. Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. 1977. Twentieth Century Fox, 1997.

Recorded Movies

Include format names; “Videocassette” for VHS or Betamax, DVD for Digital Video Disc. Also, list original release year after director, performers, ...

Ed Wood. Dir. Tim Burton. Perf. Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Sarah Jessica

Parker, Patricia Arquette. 1994. DVD. Touchstone, 2004.

Citing Personal Weblog Entries (BLOGS)

List the author of the blog (even if there is only a screen name available), provide the name of the particular entry you are referring to, identify that it is a weblog entry and then follow the basic formatting for a website as listed above.

Last Name, First. "Title of Entry." Weblog Entry. Title of Weblog. Date Posted. Date Accessed

URL.

NOTE: Give the exact date of the posted entry so your readers can look it up by date in the archive. If possible, include the archive address for the posted entry as the URL in your citation as you would for an online forum. If the site doesn't have a public archive, follow the suggestion under "Listserv" citation above.

Hawhee, Debra. "Hail, Speech!" Weblog entry. Blogos. 30 Apr. 2007. 23 May 2007

<http://dhawhee.blogs.com/d_hawhee/2007/04/index.html>.

BIBLE:

Give the name of the specific edition you are using, any editor(s) associated with it, followed by the publication information.

The New Jerusalem Bible. Ed. Susan Jones. New York: Doubleday, 1985. Print.

The Bible & In-Text Citations: In your first parenthetical citation, you want to make clear which Bible you’re using (and underline or italicize the title), as each version varies in its translation, followed by book (do not italicize or underline), chapter and verse. For example:

Ezekiel saw “what seemed to be four living creatures,” each with faces of a man, a lion, an ox, and an eagle (New Jerusalem Bible Ezek. 1.5-10).

GOVERNMENT PUBLICATION:

Cite the author of the publication if the author is identified. Otherwise, start with the name of the national government, followed by the agency (including any subdivisions or agencies) that serves as the organizational author. For congressional documents, be sure to include the number of the Congress and the session when the hearing was held or resolution passed. US government documents are typically published by the Government Printing Office, which MLA abbreviates as GPO.

United States. Cong. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearing on the

Geopolitics of Oil. 110th Cong., 1st sess. Washington: GPO, 2007. Print.

United States. Government Accountability Office. Climate Change: EPA and DOE Should Do

More to Encourage Progress Under Two Voluntary Programs. Washington: GPO, 2006. Print.

DICTIONARY or ENCYCLOPEDIA (reference books):

For entries in encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other reference works, cite the piece as you would any other work in a collection but do not include the publisher information. Also, if the reference book is organized alphabetically, as most are, do not list the volume or the page number of the article or item.

“Ideology.” The American Heritage Dictionary. 3rd ed. 1997. Print.

PAMPHLET:

Cite the title and publication information for the pamphlet just as you would a book without an author. Pamphlets and promotional materials commonly feature corporate authors (commissions, committees, or other groups that does not provide individual group member names). If the pamphlet you are citing has no author, cite as directed below. If your pamphlet has an author or a corporate author, put the name of the author (last name, first name format) or corporate author in the place where the author name typically appears at the beginning of the entry. (See also Books by a Corporate Author or Organization above.)

Women's Health: Problems of the Digestive System. Washington: American College of

Obstetricians and Gynecologists, 2006. Print.

Your Rights Under California Welfare Programs. Sacramento, CA: California Dept. of Social

Services, 2007. Print.

BOOK: Basic:

The first-give author’s name or a book with a single author's name appears in last name, first name format. The basic form for a book citation is:

Lastname, Firstname. Title of Book. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication.

Medium of Publication.

- If the place of publication is unknown, include the state, too (Wilkes-Barre, PA).

- Truncate the publisher’s name: Oxford UP (instead of Oxford University Press)

TEXTBOOK:

Text books and other books with editions. Cite the book as you normally would, but add the number of the edition after the title.

Crowley, Sharon, and Debra Hawhee. Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students. 3rd ed.

New York: Pearson/Longman, 2004. Print.

MAGAZINE ARTICLE: Basic:

Cite by listing the article's author, putting the title of the article in quotations marks, and italicizing the periodical title. Follow with the date of publication. Remember to abbreviate the month. The basic format is as follows:

Author(s). “Title of Article.” Title of Periodical Day Month Year: pages. Medium of publication.

Poniewozik, James. “TV Makes a Too-Close Call.” Time 20 Nov. 2000: 70-71. Print.

Buchman, Dana. “A Special Education.” Good Housekeeping Mar. 2006: 143-48. Print.

NEWSPAPER ARTICLE: Basic:

Cite a newspaper article as you would a magazine article, but note the different pagination in a newspaper. If there is more than one edition available for that date (as in an early and late edition of a newspaper), identify the edition following the date (e.g., 17 May 1987, late ed.).

Brubaker, Bill. “New Health Center Targets County's Uninsured Patients.” Washington Post 24

May 2007: LZ01. Print.

WEB SITE ARTILE: Basic:

Author. “Article.” Site. Date of post (n.d. if “no date” given). date of access <complete URL>.

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